CANCELLED: Cheese Books, Money Books, Floating Books, Rolling Books & Ice Cream

Ben Denzer is an artist, designer, and publisher focused on exploring the book as an object. His work has been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the New York Public Library, and the University of Oxford among other institutions. He has been awarded by the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club, Young Guns 16, Society of Illustrators, AIGA, BIGNY, and AI-AP. Ben designs and publishes Catalog Press (a small edition artist press), runs the Instagram @ice_cream_books (praised by Bella Hadid as "the most important Instagram out there today"), teaches at SVA and Parsons, and is a 2020 artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute.Denzer will speak about his explorations on creating books about cataloging, quantity, humor, and the everyday.This event is sponsored by the James E. McGhee Chair​ in the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences and the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection.